Why is it cool to persecute Christians?

[The Mikado]

You ban Christmas but you better not touch Kawanza.  What gives

If it makes you feel better, I don't know anyone who takes Kwanza seriously.

[The Mikado]

Only something like 1.3% of Americans celebrate Kwanzaa. Blacks make up about 13% of the American population, so that means even among blacks around 90% don't celebrate Kwanzaa.

While the number sounds about right, where did you get the % of people who celebrate Kwanzaa?

That was about what I would have guessed, though.  It's a ridiculous, made-up holiday that has no real roots in any sort of tradition.

[The Mikado]

Um so no one has seen the slew of Hollyweird movies mocking Christianity?  Bill Maher has done one at least.  I think more.

Maher (and especially the drunk buffoon Christopher Hitchens) is fond of saying that Muhammad was a child molester.  Some of those people go as far as to accuse Muhammad of misinterpreting epileptic fits as prophecy.  I'm very sure that Maher focuses more vitriol on Christianity because it's more familiar to him.

For the record, I don't like Bill Maher, and as for Hitchens, well...this video cracks me up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LPubUCJv58

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Overreact much?  First of all, no one is going to be jailing pastors.  (Though some churches probably should forfeit their tax-exempt status...if you're going to be politically active you should be treated like any other advocacy group)  Second of all, there are a lot of Christians in the US.  You guys don't have anything to fear, especially not from Barack Obama, a devout and pious Christian.

People don't get that they have the right to say what they want, but that doesn't mean they have the right to not be criticized for their views.  If Christianity is so badly censored, why do you guys have TBN, a network that broadcasts 24/7?  I'd bet TBN gets better ratings than Maher's ratings on HBO.

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Didn't find it rude.  Just serious overreacting by a representative of America's firmly dominant religion since its founding.  Christianity is not being "oppressed" in the US.

[The Mikado]

Poor, persecuted supermajority. 

Can someone point to a mainstream movie where Christianity is bashed.  Bill Maher doesn't count, as he doesn't have much of a following.

Dogma, perhaps?  If that doesn't qualify I have nothing.  An even Dogma isn't so much bashing Christianity as affectionately irreverent towards it.

PS: To anyone questioning my description of Obama's piety, I'd love to hear about Ronald Reagan's or George W. Bush's church attendance rates while in the White House.